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...RIVER CONGO by Peter Forbath; Harper & Row; 416 pages...
Joseph Conrad described the Congo River as "an immense snake uncoiled, with its head in the sea . . . its tail lost in the depths of the land." Peter Forbath shares Conrad's feeling for this mighty, mysterious river, which rises in southeastern Central Africa, more than 1,000 miles south of the equator and about a mile above sea level, and ends 3,000 miles later in the Atlantic Ocean. Forbath first saw the river as a journalist during the Simba uprising that bloodied the Congo basin in 1964. He has spent the intervening years assembling the story of what Central...
...principal rapist, as Forbath makes clear, was Leopold, King of the Belgians...
...international pressures forced Leopold to relinquish his personal king dom. But he had already sown the seeds of the horrors that Forbath later witnessed following Congolese independence in 1960. Instead of preparing its onetime col ony for self-rule, Belgium simply cut the Congo loose on six months' notice. The Belgian departure left a vacuum that ri val factions rushed to fill, touching off further bloodbaths...
Because of severe space limitations, Willy Forbath's review of "The World of Lenny Bruce" did not mention some essential details when it appeared last Friday. The play, which was directed by Frank Speiser and has Speiser as its star, is showing at the Players Theater in New York City...